Freestyle Interactive Launches Major New Website for Paris-Based International Aerospace Giant Thales

WARWICK, England - Paris-based Thales, a world leader in mission-critical information systems for aerospace and space, defence & security markets, has re-launched its website www.thalesgroup.com following a major redesign and development project by Warwick-based Freestyle Interactive - one of Top 100 digital agencies in the UK and the biggest in the Midlands.

The work was awarded to Freestyle Interactive following a five-way competitive pitch which included pan-European agencies. Thales chose Freestyle for its international experience and ability to respond to complex challenges.

The new Thales website is a phased project which represents a significant investment in online communications for this French company which had a turnover of 12.7 billion euros in 2008 and employs 68,000 people across the world.

Thales chose Freestyle for its international experience and ability to respond to complex challenges.

The new site will deliver up-to-date corporate and financial, product and service information to global stakeholders and investors

Thales is one of three major European based clients secured by Freestyle Interactive in the last three years - Thales, Alstom and Volvo.

Freestyle Interactive Managing Director Suzanne Linton : ” The Thales win is great news for the agency; we have a growing number of European-based clients all of whom are making long term investments in their websites and looking at how online communication, design and web technologies can improve business performance and cost effectiveness. ” .

The contract involved the entire redesign and re-development of the Thales internet structure from the roots up. Freestyle account director Alex Clifford said: ” Working with Thales on this project has been very exciting and we will continue to work in partnership with their external communication and multi-media teams at Thales’s HQ in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, to implement Phase Two “

More about Freestyle Interactive

Based in the UK, the Midlands near Warwick, Freestyle Interactive is 13 years old, is one of the biggest independent interactive agencies in the UK and ranked 26th in New Media Age’s UK Top 100 interactive agencies.

Source: Freestyle Interactive Ltd

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